Announcement from the Royal Society: The Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme
The
Lisa Jardine Grant Scheme is designed to offer the opportunity for
early career scholars to exploit
history of science collections, including the Royal Society’s own, in
support of their research in the field of intellectual history.
The
Scheme is named in memory of the eminent British historian Professor
Lisa Jardine CBE FRS. It is intended to encourage junior researchers in
the humanities and arts to seek to expand
their interests in history of science and related interdisciplinary
studies by travelling in order to use archival resources and to build
relationships with the Royal Society and other institutions. Grants are
intended to encourage the free movement of researchers
across disciplines and countries and to stimulate academics studying
intellectual history to consider science in their research.
Applicants
are encouraged to look at the Royal Society’s strategic objectives, in
order to be able to demonstrate how their research might further these
general goals, but applications
will be judged on the strength of their academic content in
intellectual history, history of science and related disciplines.
Special consideration will be given to topics that were of interest to
Professor Jardine, notably in 17th century studies.
Funds
for a contribution towards subsistence can be requested to allow
overseas and UK scholars to make lengthy research visits to the Royal
Society Library in London; for travel expenses
to London in order to conduct this research; and for international
travel expenses to allow UK scholars to travel overseas for short
visits. The first round has now opened and will close at 3pm on Friday
31 August 2018.
Potential applicants are referred to the scheme notes on the Royal Society’s website:
https://royalsociety.org/